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Tuesday, June 21, 2011

How do non-readers cope?

Just try being stuck at home and indoors with orders to 'take it easy' and 'not to lift more than a couple of kilos' for a month and a half.

Okay, the first week or so, it's all about the rest and the pain relief, and the 'being looked after' [ thankyou Nadie ], but after a while that begins to get old.There's only so much tv that one can watchand it hurts to sit at the computer for more than a few minutes [ stitches ... don't ask ]

so how do people stave off total boredom if they don't knit ... or quilt ... or read ?

I really have no idea [ and don't say gardening, cos I can't do that yet either ]

Anyway, there has been plenty of reading going on, as evidenced by the fact that I'm up to book 60 for the year, and that doesn't count the ones that I started but gave up on halfway through.

It may seem that I'm getting desparate for blogfodder when I post lists like this. but that's just so not true.There is method to my madness.Promise.

Y'see, every time I post my booklist, someone who has bothered to wade through it all chimes in with some fabulous author that I haven't discovered yet.Recently I've been working my way through two authors that I wouldn't have found were it not for rave reviews from Sheepish Annie ... Cassandra Clare and Mike Carey specifically.As it happens I was able to get the Clares from the Library, but they only had the first of the Careys ... which turned out just fine, because I liked him enough to plonk down my dineros to buy the series [ including the one I'd just read ]

So, in the hope that some more great reads might be forthcoming, here's the 2011 booklist to date:

thanks for all the suggestions so far - you seem to have picked up on the fact that I like distopian urban fantasy [and if it happens to be detective fiction so much the better ]I've checked the library database and put in a few requests for the first volumes in series

since I posted yesterday I've finished the fourth Mike Carey and started the fifth.

I was going to suggest Tad Williams (having just discovered him myself) but then saw his name pop up way down on the list.I'm also reading George R.R. Martin, when I can lay my greedy little mitts on one of his books...(I've just added a bunch of titles/authors to my library list. Thanks!)

something a little different... these were recommended to me ...Water for Elephants, The Kite Runner, The Help, The Story of Edward Sawtelle and for something light the The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency ~ Alexander McCall Smith

About Me

Walking the fine line between creativity and obsession on my 10 acres of bushland. I share my life with my severely autistic son, and also my daugher and son-in-law, 4 cats and 4 goats, a very small dog who apparently thinks he's a Rottweiler ... or a cat ... and a collection of fabrics and fibres that can be seen from space.